As 2022 draws to a close, we take a look at the victories that have brought us ever closer to a livable long-term for all.
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With each passing year, what is at stake is clean water, food and a livable climate. But with each passing year, the food
This strength is only imaginable with our team of organizers, researchers, lawyers, policy analysts, and, of course, our members and volunteers. For more than seventeen years, Food
Our work has shifted the needle on key issues, from national climate law to local battles against polluting companies. We are proud of everything we have achieved this year, especially those four victories in the fight for a livable future for all.
Many Democrats were thrilled when Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), despite everything, committed to the Crimean administration’s flagship legislation. But we soon learned that in exchange for his deciding vote on the IRA, Manchin had struck a dirty deal with the majority of the Senate. Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY).
This dirty business would have accelerated fossil fuel projects across the country and displaced a law on the basin’s environmental coverage. He also threatened to silence frontline communities and operate the Mountain Valley pipeline, which had already been torn down by opposition and networking.
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Then, on Capitol Hill in late September, thirteen executive administrators of our motion were arrested in a sit-in, joined by our own Wenonah Hauter.
And it was all worth it. By the end of the month, Senator Manchin had reached the agreement.
Millions of other people in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, its parks are precious places for family, fun and herbal beauty. So when we saw how devastated fracking was in a county park, our AP organizers began mobilizing to ban long-term fracking in the rest of Allegheny’s parks. .
We knew it wouldn’t be easy. Years ago, the existing county executive vetoed a similar ban. But this time, we knew we had the strength of the other people and the other members of the county council to pull it off.
Together with our allies, we spent a year organizing, building on the paintings of those who came here before us. In those efforts,
Unsurprisingly, the county executive vetoed the park’s ban once he arrived at his office, in the most tortuous way possible. But our allies on the Council rushed to hold a special consultation and overrode the veto, getting a new vote along the way. Now, the iconic parks ban protects more than 12,000 acres of beloved green space.
In recent years, millions of investors have begun to enter the lucrative cryptocurrency market. But the new fortunes are in a climate-devastating generation we knew we had to stop.
Crypto mining (production and verification of cryptocurrencies) is incredibly force-intensive. This requires mainframe stores running at full capacity every day. As a result, the industry has resurrected dying coal and fuel plants. It has also increased production in factories that were once used only for emergencies or spikes in demand.
While the cryptocurrency market has handed many over to a lucky few, it threatens frontline communities with even more pollutants and the planet with harmful emissions.
In 2022, New York was home to at least one-fifth of all Bitcoin mining operations (the most popular form of cryptocurrency) in the country. More and more corporations seemed to be in a position to take advantage of the state’s dozens of withdrawn power plants. Therefore, New York is in the midst of a crusade for a moratorium on crypto mining.
Together with our allies, we have expressed our support for the statewide moratorium (the first of its kind) every step of the way. In June, the mandatory bill passed through the state legislature and languished on Gov. Kathy Hochul’s desk.
Finally, after months of organization through Food
Fractured fuel harms other people and the planet in its life cycle, and this damage is extremely devastating to communities near polluting infrastructure. That’s why Food
Among other proposed projects, this year we had to deal with the expansion of a forced gas plant in Woodbridge, New Jersey. Our studies found that if expanded as proposed, the Woodbridge site would be the state’s largest source of climate emissions. They also spew poisonous carbon monoxide, volatile biological compounds, lead and more into the air.
Frontline communities, also disproportionately underserved, still bear the brunt of pollutants like this. Around the Woodbridge site, each and every town within a 5-mile radius is already overloaded with pollutants, according to state criteria.
That is why we were very happy when, this year, 8 government bodies passed resolutions opposing expansion. Four did so unanimously.
The fate of the expansion still depends on an air permit from the state Department of Environmental Protection. But by organizing local governments and citizens to speak out against the bill, we are building the diverse coalition and public pressure necessary to get Governor Murphy to reject this bill. Polluting proposal.
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The road to a sustainable long-term is long and complicated, but we are developing and gaining more every day. Amid the changing tides, polluting industries and force-affiliated corporations will continue to cling to force. to frontline partners and communities to go hand in hand with them, every step of the way.
In the new year, we will work with our partners in offices across the country, at all levels of government, to achieve our vision of a livable long-term for all. But we can’t do it without supporters like you. Thanks to your generosity, we have the resources to embrace and win those battles.
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